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Pictures to Help You Keep Your Church, Together Come explore with us issues involving God, Church, and World - in the light of the Bible "Jesus, Avalanche, Pyramid, Castle and Pie: Pictures to Help You Keep Your Church, Together" Sabbath, Jrne 3,2017 Bonners Ferry Seventh-day Adventist Church Presenter: Alden Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies Walla Walla Universitv 9:15 Sabbath Morning Avalanche and Pyramid 10:45 Sabbath Morning Jesus 12230 Potluck 2:00 Sabbath afternoon Castle and Pie Thompson books are available at his cost or less. See list at back of handout packet. ptccuRes co ,teLp you sc1.tby Voure EtBLe lesus Ma*++-e;"r J L'r^-LA.ACbe LLa'V PfRA,g2b Tert Corytma-rtJtnents Md-ny Qe-ae.sis 1- ll Rozvza->ts 13 : lo , Nla-*1 .22:35'LlO' Joshua. 2+:2 Deq*. 4; t3-t+, Dzur. 3l: 2+-26, J-an 3t ! 3t-3+, Ma-lf /7:E C'SELC pte Answzrs Proverbs Apptz Ple- Fccl esi a.s+es Ie.re-m taJt Pe-c.a-vt Pte Ve,qe*ahle Qu-e5+roT1S Aet's to-tlt lL+- 16 f Cor. 8, tO Cor. l, 3, fZ THE PICTURES SUMMARIZED 2012.06.03 THB IDEAL: JESUS. The incarnate revelation of God. As God in the flesh, Jesus is the embodiment, touclrstone, and focus of all truth, the clearest revelation of God: "[ am the way, and the truth, and the lit-e," he said (John 14:6, NRSV). All the other pictr-rres must be seen in the light of Jesus. In Matt.5, Jesus clearly compares his way with the Oid Testarnent, claiming that liis'New" way is in some sense "better" while fully affirrning the autlrority of the "Old" (Matt. 5:17). ADAPTATION: AVALANCHE. The devastation of sin, God's gracious adaptation. Sin has devastated our ability to grasp pure truth. The progressive, avalanche-like nature of tlrat devastation is illLrstrated by the eveuts of Genesis 3-11: Fall, Murder, Flood, Babel. According to Joshua 24z2,by the tirne of Abraham, God's own people "worshiped other gods." Thus, in the Bible, God condescends to give, not absolute, but practical truth, adapted to the needs of fallen humanity (cf. Isa.55:8-9). STABILITY: PYRAMID. Eternal law, temporary applications. The avalanche teaches that God reaches people where they are. That's the good ner,vs. The bad news is that it scatters our proof texts all over the hillside. Instead of timeless nuggets of truth, Scripture otten illustrates truth through practical applications in specific times and places. Relativisrn? No. The law pyramid is a powerful anchor against relativism, illustrating how the one great principle of love: "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10), Jesus'two great commands "Love God/Love neighbor" (Matt. 22:35-40), and the 10 commandments (Exod. 20, Deut. 5), form a stable structure within which all of Scripture finds its proper place. Some things never change: the One, tlie Two, and the Ten. But some things do. Deut. 4:13-14 marks off the "Ten" that went inside the ark from the specific applications that went in a book beside the ark (Deut. 3l:. 24-26). The goal is a new covenant experience, an invisible law written on the heart (Jer. 31:31-34). But in the meantime, God adapts his law to human heafts hardened by sin (Matt. 19:8). CIIANGE: CASTLE. Changing times, changing laws. Acts 10-ll and 14-16 show that even some 15- 20 years after the resurrection, Christians were not clear on which OT laws were still valid. A castle complex illustrates the point: I ) Teachings and practices which are valid for all the community are in the KEEP, the central fortress; 2) Optional rnatters and debates over the meaning of the items in the keep are handled in the COURTYARD, still a safe place within the castle, but not as secure as the I(EEP; 3) The OUTER WALL marks the boLrndary between community and world. Changing times and culture can put new items in the KEEP even while changing circumstances are at work to take them out again (e.g. food offered to idols, 1 Cor.8, 10). Old items can also move from KEEP to COIIRTYARD. Thus circr"uncision could become optional, no longer rnandatory but still practiced when appropriate (Acts 16). DMRSITY: PIE. Conservatives and liberals working together in the church. The diversity in the church today is matched bythe diversity of the biblical booksthernselves. The nature of thatdiversity is illustrated by the d ifferent ways the words "conservative" and "liberal" are used in the church: 1 ) The INTELLECTUAL spectrum, the span betrveen those who need high structure and those who need room to explore; 2) The CULTURAL or LIFE-STYLE spectrum. the span between those who immerse themselves in human culture in order to be with people and those who separate themselves from human culture in order to be with God. 3) The PRESENCE OF GOD spectrum, the span between those who sense God as close and personal and those who sense him only from afar. Matching these with each other yields four ideal types, illurstrated by for"rr biblical books/characters and four kinds of pie: Apple Pie/ Proverbs, Vegetable Pie/Jeremiah; Lemon Pie/Paul; Pecan Pie/Ecclesiastes. All are needed to make the body of Christ complete. That kind of diversity is reflected in I Corinthians 1,3, and 12. The Pie, Myer-s-Briggs, and Bible Translations Parapltase (Ciear Word) People C1arily Answers (!) SP Artrsan SJ Guardian Proverbs "Apple" Ecclesiastes Jeremiah Universal inclusir,,it), One rrersion only (Neu, Incltt sive L'ers i on) "Pecan" "Vegetable" INKJV: KJV-Only) Revisionist Consen,ationist Questions (?) God NT Rationalist NF ldealist Parallel translations (CEV [dynamic]NASB ffonnal]) Clarity and Reliab i lily [Keirsey's "pragmatic use of tools"] fKeirse-v's "cooperative use of tools"] For elaboration of the Myers-Briggs schema, see David Keirsey. Please Undersland Me, II: Tetnperamenl, Character', Intelligence (Prometheus Nemesis, i998). Diversity in PeopXe and in Scripture: Select Bllen White Quotes Bible teachers, diversity needed - Counsels tQ Parents and Teachers,432'33 hr our schools the work of teaching the Scriptures to the youth is not to be left wholly with one teacher for a long series of years. The tsible teacher may be well able to present the th, and yet it is not the best experience for the students that their study of the word of God should be directed by one man only, term after terrn and yeal after year. Different teachers should have a part in the work, even though they may not all have so full an understanding of the Scriptures. If several in our larger schools unite in the work of teaching the Scriptures, the students may thus have the benefit of the talents of several. Why do we need a Matthew, a Mark, a Luke, a John, a Paul, and all the writers who have bome testimony in regard to the life and ministry of,the Saviour? Why could not one of the disciples have vwitten a complete record, and thus have given us a connected account of Christ's earthly life? Why does one writer bring in points that another does not mention? Why, if these points are essential, did not all these writers mention them? It is beoause the minds of men differ. Not all comprehend things in exactly the same way. Certain truths appeal much more strongly to the minds of some than of others- The same principle applies to speakers. One dwells at considerable length on points that others would pass by quickly or not mention at a1l. The whole truth is presented more clearly by several than by one. The Gospels differ, but the records of all blend in one harmonious whole. So today the Lord does not irnpress all minds in the same way. Often through unusual experiences, L43214331under special circumstances, He gives to some Bible students views of truth that others do not grasp. It is possible for the rnost learned teacher to fall far short of teaching all that should be taught. It would greatly benefit our schools if regular meetings were heid frequently in which all the teachers could r-mite in the study of the word of God. They should search the Scriptures as did the noble Bereans. They should subordinate all preconceived opinions, and taking the Bible as their lesson Book, comparing Scriptute with Scripture, they should leam what to teach their students, and how to train them for acceptable service. Synrpathy, needed because we differ so widely - Ministry of Healing,483 Every association of life calls for the exercise of self-controi, forbearance, and sympathy. We diffler so widely in disposition, habits, education, that our ways of looking at things vary. We judge differently. Our understanding of truth, our ideas in regard to the conduct of life, are not in all respects the same. There are no two whose experience is alike in every particular. The trials of one are not the triais of another. T'he duties that one frnds light are to another most difficult and perpiexing. So frail, so ignoran! so liable to rnisconception is hurnan nature, that each should be careful in the estimate he places upon another. We little know the bearing of our acts upon the experience of others. What we do or say may seem to us of little rnoment, when, couid our eyes be opened, we should see that upon it depended the most important results for good or for evil. People Guidelines "The Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.
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